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The survey also found that 68.5 percent either knew that LGBT was an acronym for sexual minorities or had heard of the term ...Related coverage. ... Discriminatory comments are still being made against the LGBT community, most recently this month by politician KatsueiHirasawa, who said "a country would collapse" if everyone became LGBT ... ....

The remarks late last week by 74-year-old KatsueiHirasawa, to a crowd in Yamanashi Prefecture, in central Japan, indicate just how out of touch older generations of politicians are with modern-day Japan, analysts say. More worrying, they point out, is that they... ....

Diet deliberations continue their seemingly inevitable deterioration under the Abe administration. The Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee on Nov ... The Lower House passed the bill in a subsequent plenary session ... Before the vote, LDP lawmaker KatsueiHirasawa, lead director of the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee, told reporters ... 28 ....

TOKYO — A few months ago, Shinzo Abe faced calls to resign as a cronyism scandal sent his popularity tanking ... “He’s extremely determined,” said KatsueiHirasawa, a lawmaker with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party who served as a personal tutor to Abe in his childhood. “But what’s really important for a leader is to be lucky, and he is.” ... “But Mr ... ———....

TOKYO —A few months ago, Shinzo Abe faced calls to resign as a cronyism scandal sent his popularity tanking ... "He's extremely determined," said KatsueiHirasawa, a lawmaker with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party who served as a personal tutor to Abe in his childhood. "But what's really important for a leader is to be lucky, and he is." ... "But Mr ... ___ ... ....